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Ordinance authorizing settlement of the lawsuit filed by the City and County of San Francisco and the Environmental Law Foundation against the United States Tobacco Company, other manufacturers of smokeless tobacco products, and major retail chains that sell smokeless tobacco in California, for $2,750,000; the lawsuit was filed on March 31, 1998 in San Francisco Superior Court, Case No. 993-992; entitled City and County of San Francisco and Environmental Law Foundation v. United States Tobacco Co., et al.; other material terms of said settlement are that the smokeless tobacco manufacturers shall distribute warning signs required by Proposition 65 to their retailers throughout the state, and that the retailer defendants shall post those signs.
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